Netherlands bullboard interesting JulyBoost for Indonesian gold story. It is just one week since we rang the bell for the start of the new Indonesian gold story. Pure Speculation flagged that analysts and investors were warming to a country that had long been seen as one of the more difficult jurisdictions. As we said, a good deposit overcomes a lot of doubts. And, as we also saw this morning, the major gold miners are now clearly on a drive to acquire as many projects as they can in order to replace their mined reserves. This is the significance of the news today that sees Newcrest Mining taking a 7.1 per cent stake in Sumatra Copper & Gold and also farming in to a 70 per cent interest in the latter's Tandai project and an option over Sumatra's Tembang project. Both are epithermal gold targets, the latter having a JORC-compliant resources of a contained 1.64 million ounces of gold and 19.8m ounces of silver.